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Occupational mismatch of immigrants in Europe : the role of education and cognitive skills
Cim, Merve; Kind, Michael Sebastian; Kleibrink, Jan - 2017
an apparent phenomenon or rather a genuine overqualification observed also in the form of cognitive overskilling. In this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632140
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Getting what (employers think) you’re worth : evidence on the gender gap in entry wages among university graduates
Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian - 2010
Since the early 1970s, wage differentials between men and women have attracted the research interest of labor economists. However, up to now empirical evidence on gender differentials of labor market entrants and the determinants of their starting wages is scarce. To fill this gap, we make use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008933726
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Minimum wage : redistributive or discriminatory policy?
Micheli, Martin - 2017
The standard model of optimal minimum wage policy in a perfectly competitive labor market suggests that a positive tax rate on minimum wage income is Pareto inefficient. However, most countries with minimum wage legislation exhibit a positive tax rate on minimum wage income. We solve this...
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Task specialization and the native-foreign wage gap : evidence from worker-level data
Storm, Eduard - 2021
Running RIF regressions to decompose wage differences along the distribution, this is the first study documenting that worker-level variation in tasks has played a key role in the widening of the German Native-Foreign Wage Gap. Comparing variation in Individual- vs Occupation-level task measures...
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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
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Wage differentials by field of study : the case of German university graduates
Görlitz, Katja; Grave, Barbara S. - 2012
Using data on German university graduates, this paper analyzes wage differentials by field of study at labor market entry and five to six years later. At both points in time, graduates from Arts and Humanities have lower average monthly wages compared to other fields of study. Blinder-Oaxaca...
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The hidden increase in wage inequality : skill-biased and ability-biased technology change
Michaelsen, Maren - 2011
This study provides strong evidence for an increase in wage inequality induced by skillbiased technological change in the UK manufacturing industry between 1991 and 2006. Using individual level data from the BHPS and industry level data from the OECD, wage regressions are estimated which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579648
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Gender segregation and gender wage differences during the early labour market career
Bechara, Peggy - 2012
results reveal that all types of segregation and particularly job-cell segregation are significant determinants of the gender … career in lower-paying occupations and establishments. With progressing labour market experience, however, gender segregation …. Therefore, part of the early career wage gap remains unexplained. -- Gender wage gap ; early career ; labour market segregation …
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Reaching high : occupational sorting and higher education wage inequality in the UK
Kleibrink, Jan; Michaelsen, Maren - 2012
We analyse wage differentials between Higher Education graduates in the UK, differentiating between polytechnic and university graduates. Polytechnic graduates earned on average lower wages than university graduates prior to the UK Further and Higher Education Act of 1992. The reform changed the...
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Labour market polarisation, job tasks and monopsony power
Bachmann, Ronald; Demir, Gökay; Frings, Hanna - 2020
Using a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic monopsony model, we examine to what extent workers performing different job tasks are exposed to different degrees of monopsony power, and whether these differences in monopsony power have changed over the last 30 years. We find that workers...
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